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Question 7

by Richard Flanagan
language: english
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, May of 2025 ‧
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Who loves longer?

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.

Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place. Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science and memory it shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.

'This book took me completely by surprise and is unlike anything I’ve read this year. Gripping, affecting, wholly original. I absolutely loved it' - David Nicholls, author of One Day

A work of non-fiction…but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel… Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be - Sunday Times

'Irresistible. . . . What Flanagan achieves so well is locating what is intimately human within his grand sweep. . . . The attention he pays is tender without ever sacrificing the sharpness of his gaze' - Chris Power, New York Times Book Review

‘Question 7 is the greatest memoir of parents and place I have read - and this is hardly to touch on its originality. I was amazed by its intense moral and emotional rigour, its power of compassion, the strength and beauty of the prose. I would take it up, read a page, sometimes just a paragraph, and find I had to set it down, dazed, to think about every word and idea before I could even begin to go on. Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet’ - Laura Cumming, author of Thunderclap

'We believe we make choices in our lives, yet what explodes in these pages is the way in which the fiercest and strongest response we can make to the forces that threaten to destroy us is to surrender to love' - Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works

There’s so much…in Flanagan’s beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir… That it is a masterpiece is without question - Observer

'Question 7 is written with a spectacular mixture of fierce energy and then control, care. It is a kind of reckoning, Richard Flanagan with his father and his mother, Tasmania with its past, Japan with its past, the author with himself. It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' - Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn

Excellent…Flanagan is unfailingly good company - Daily Mail

Question 7

by Richard Flanagan

Property Description
ISBN: 9781529935479
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Release Date: May of 2025
Language: English
Dimensions: 130 x 204 x 16 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Memories and Testimonies
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781529935479

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan nasceu na Tasmânia em 1961 e é um dos principais romancistas australianos. Os seus livros — Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, O Livro dos Peixes de Gould (vencedor do Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), The Unknown Terrorist e Wanting — receberam diversos prémios e foram publicados em 26 países.
O seu pai, que faleceu no dia em que Flanagan enviou ao editor a versão final de A Senda Estreita para o Norte Profundo, foi um dos sobreviventes da Ferrovia da Morte da Birmânia. Era o «prisioneiro 335», e o livro, escrito ao longo de 12 anos, é-lhe dedicado.

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